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Dallas Divide & Owl Creek Pass

This weekend Amanda and I went back down to the edge of the San Juan Mountains for one last weekend of photographing fall colors this year. We ended up spending most of our time along Owl Creek Pass Road and north of the Sneffels Range near the Dallas Divide. The fall colors near the Dallas Divide were probably a bit past peak, but still pretty nice, but the area around Owl Creek Pass still had quite a bit of green.

On Saturday morning we left Grand Junction bright and early so that we could make it to the Dallas Divide in time for sunrise. I took this photo shortly before the sun came up in the soft dawn light.

On Sunday morning, Amanda and I arrived at our sunrise location along County Road 5 well before the sun came up. That gave me some time to take a few photos of the Sneffels Range under the stars and lit up by the Harvest Moon.

On our way down Lands End Road we got stopped by an auto race that was in progress. They told us we would probably be waiting an hour until we could drive down, so I got out my telephoto lens and watched a little bit of the race before finishing the drive home. It was fun to try photographing something a little different from my normal nature and landscape scenes.